Mohammed Ahmed, of Upper Dale Road, Normanton, also accused Tesco of victimisation and harassment during a three-day employment tribunal.

Poor little baby. Did the nasty master make you pick up a crate of booze? What about other religions that are intolerant of alcohol, such as Methodists? Do they receive special dispensation? What about pork, bacon, sausages, ham and paintbrushes made with pigs’ bristles — and other religions who have a problem with pork products?

Nobody was making him drink the stuff, for crying out loud. It’s sealed up in bottles and packed up in crates. And the claim that he was unaware — despite having visited other British supermarkets — that Tesco sold alcohol is simply laughable.

Mohammed Ahmed is an embarrassment to his community, towards whom he has done nothing but stir up ill feeling. I am sure that most Muslims in this country are quite happy to leave their more outlandish beliefs at the door of the Mosque on the way out, but there are many ignorant people who would use one person’s pathetic, infantile behaviour to tar them all with the same brush.

Ahmed deserves nothing more than a one-way ticket back to Saudi Arabia — wrapped in the bill for the whole sorry affair. Including the clean-up for any race riots that may ensue as a result of his acting like a twat.

Adults walking in a park in Shropshire unaccompanied by children risk being stopped by council officials — just in case they might be paedophiles.

Now, never mind that if you ask a paedophile if he (or she — not all paedophiles are men) is a paedophile, they’re hardly going to answer in the affirmative, but whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty” ? This is surely a breach of Articles 5, 6, 8, 10 and/or 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, however you look at it.

Measures such as this will not protect a single child. However, they will fan the flames of panic and acclimatise the population to ever more intrusive surveillance.